I have plans to don the old CITIZEN JOURNALIST garb and mingle with those who’ll be flocking to Denver for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. If you’d like to help support the site in general, or help with any of the expenses I’ll accrue while attending these events or infiltrating these groups, please go ahead and hit the Tip Jar (Amazon) or Donate button (PayPal). For Freedom! And Capitalism!
Thanks. Speak Truth to Power. Take it to the Man. Viva La Revolución!
Etc.
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Saturday update: This is the home stretch, folks.
Help me pay for that Obama bobble head doll that I plan to wear on my shoulder like a glorious Hopey Changey epaulet. Unless you want to pitch in for an eye patch and a puffy shirt, as well. In which case I’ll wear it like a parrot.
Imagine my rapture as Obama whispers in my ear, instructing me to go forth and preach to the masses! Why, it is to swoon! Hell, I don’t doubt that I might even be called to talk in tongues…
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/4 @ 4:11 pm #
WE WILL NOT BE DENIED!
DIEBOLD!!!11!!
Comment by B Moe on 5/4 @ 4:20 pm #
But just so you know, fake mustache hair costs money, people  and Birkenstocks and twine necklaces with pendants carved out of the shells of scarce Ecuadoran nuts don’t just grow on trees, you know.
Damn, dude, Athens had its big, annual Human Rights Festival this weekend. There were street vendors hawking more hippy bullshit than you could shake a tax form at. I would have bought you some goodies if I had known. But I guess Boulder is like a wholesale center for that stuff now that I think about it.
I’ll be hitting the tip jar for sure, this should be gold.
Comment by mojo on 5/4 @ 4:28 pm #
I take it the agent provocateur gig came through, huh? It’s sweet, believe me.
Some advice: stop shaving about 3 months before to get the proper scruffy beard going. Don’t bathe for at least a week beforehand, then douse yourself with patchouli. A pair of worn-out jeand, some birks and a Young Mao t-shirt and it’s fat city…
Comment by TC@LeatherPenguin on 5/4 @ 4:35 pm #
Dude!  At least, I think it’s the first fundraiser. I can’t really remember.
Were you not sitting in the pews?
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/4 @ 4:36 pm #
Well, I’ll have to play multiple characters, I think. So I’ll probably just shave myself completely hairless and work at building up.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/4 @ 4:37 pm #
Sorry, that last was to mojo.
TC –
Maybe. But unlike some, I never claimed I was there for anything other than the shot of wine and the free cracker.
Comment by Karl on 5/4 @ 5:36 pm #
CRACKER!!!
Comment by happyfeet on 5/4 @ 6:10 pm #
I will hit your jar later like closer to the convention cause I just found out yesterday that my sister is gonna be punished with a baby and I’m not sure what this means yet. I may have to travel. It’s just so dark. Me poor mum is gonna have a stroke when she finds out.
Comment by TC@LeatherPenguin on 5/4 @ 6:14 pm #
So you ADMIT to the cracker addiction?
/Sorry, thought i was over at FARK.
//Slashies!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 5/4 @ 6:18 pm #
#5
Well, I’ll have to play multiple characters, I think. So I’ll probably just shave myself completely hairless and work at building up.
Heh-heh.
On that note, I’ve often wondered how Zombie has managed to remain incognito all these years(!), despite the San Francisco moonbats’ concerted efforts to “expose” him/her.
Or perhaps I should describe their efforts as “sundry” as I can’t imagine those slackers doing anything “in concert” beyond getting wasted.
Comment by Joan of Argghh! on 5/4 @ 6:26 pm #
Quick, someone buy Jeff a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows, a white Gant oxford shirt, and faded jeans so he can look like a Berkley prof. And no Birks, he needs Earth Shoes.
And some weed.
Comment by Joan of Argghh! on 5/4 @ 6:28 pm #
Ah, here’s a good primer for what the fashionistas of the late 60’s were wearing.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/4 @ 6:29 pm #
Can’t I just send you one of these? They might mistake you for a superdelegate!
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 5/4 @ 6:33 pm #
fake mustache hair costs money, people  and Birkenstocks and twine necklaces with pendants carved out of the shells of scarce Ecuadoran nuts don’t just grow on trees.
Well Jeff, you don’t have to go as a female progg, you know…
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/4 @ 7:09 pm #
Up to $28 already. Sweet.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/4 @ 7:14 pm #
Oh. Well anyway there you go for your jar. Mom took it actually pretty well, so there’s that then.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/4 @ 7:39 pm #
I tossed in a dime or two, but this monkey cries out for an organ grinder.
Comment by Ric Locke on 5/4 @ 7:54 pm #
Well, just about now I’m fairly sorry I don’t have a tip jar… ah, well, maybe somebody’ll pay me.
‘68, ‘68, August was it? — College Station, Texas, no air conditioning. Lane Brown, you out there anywhere? That has to be the summer we discovered that cherry vodka and original Fresca® makes Hawaiian Punch that doesn’t need the little guy for delivery. That fall, Grand Prarie and a job at the wind tunnel ‘way above my comprehension level, which ultimately resulted in my dropping out… I don’t think I voted at all. No, I couldn’t have; I wasn’t 21 yet. As they say, if you remember the Sixties you weren’t there. I do vaguely remember standing on the University President’s porch shouting something inane. It was sort of fashionable at the time, and General Rudder appeared to take it in good part.
So unless the Japanese pay me, and soon, I reckon I won’t have much to contribute. There’s time before the convention, of course. I could send you some horse manure, which will of course be in plentiful supply at the event, but you might wish to acclimatize beforehand, no?
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Ted Nugent's Soul Patch on 5/4 @ 7:57 pm #
You’re a braver man than I to go downtown during the convention. Recreate 68 and their fellow travelers might just be talking a lot of shit, but I’ve seen footage of enough post-SuperBowl and Stanley Cup riots to know that Denver police aren’t shy about using tear gas.
Plus, I’d be far too tempted to run over the traffic-blocking neo-hippies in the streets. These people are not worth going to jail over.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/4 @ 8:07 pm #
This is really good news. I wasn’t at all looking forward to these convention thingers. Democrats have just become so drama drama drama all the time, and how stale is Hope already? A lot stale I think, and since it looks like we’re not gonna have the hoped-for recession or the hoped-for calamity in Iraq, they’ll be having to make up drama to compensate. So it’ll be really a huge cornucopia of phony in Denver. Someone should be there to take notes for real, cause except for Democrats the only people that go to these things is journalists.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 5/4 @ 8:40 pm #
Keep in mind, folks, that if you ever gave to Andrew Sullivan during one of HIS fund drives, the only true repentance is giving to Jeff now.
Comment by PLC14 on 5/4 @ 9:03 pm #
Geez, I’ll have to make a jar drop.
Seems like just 40 years ago I was as excited over the anticipation of reading HST’s convention coverage. Must have been a real leg thriller for Jann Wenner, though, considering the circulation boost Hunter’s stuff always provided.
Comment by CraigC on 5/4 @ 9:58 pm #
My contributions are my hilarious posts.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 5/4 @ 10:01 pm #
Well, I must be psychic, because I just hit the jar a few days ago.
I would send some more, but I just had to re-up my son for little league. Expensive enough in itself these days, but since my son has gotten bigger, that “re-up” included a new glove and bat.
I almost shit when I saw the price of the bat. Is there platinum somewhere inside of baseball bats? I wasn’t there when my wife bought his last one, so I didn’t have a clue. When I looked at the old bank account, I just figured she had bought another $100+ of the usual useless junk that she can’t seem to resist (and rarely ever even looks at once it’s in the front door).
I was astounded. And now I’m trying to figure out how to buy gas for work this week. I think there actually IS platinun in gasoline, though.
Comment by CraigC on 5/4 @ 10:01 pm #
Which, if you think about it, means I should dump in a couple hundred bucks.
Comment by TmjUtah on 5/4 @ 10:09 pm #
Nomination Night: Denver, Ground Zero.
Jeff G rockets out a side door of the Democrat Convention, somehow keeping his grip on the tequila soaked, condom and sombrero clad armadillo tucked under his arm. He knows that the pursuit by very serious and bulky men wearing ear pieces representing a very sexually frustrated Nancy Pelosi is only seconds behind him.
In spite of the need to be anywhere else at all, he freezes in the street transfixed by the sight of Medea Benjamin at the head of a hundred topless Code Pink grandmas who are all screaming incoherently as they march down the street. A roiling cloud of smoke and the stench of unwashed teens waft around him from behind, and he turns to see a forest of puppet heads bobbing over a herd of masked and keffyehed Black Blockers booming along up the street, breaking windows and kicking over trash cans as they come.
The door behind him creaks as it begins to open.
Jeff steals the dillo’s sombrero and tosses a ten dollar bill to the first sign waver in the black block mob.
“If I use your sign for an hour, it’s not capitalism if you sell it!”
He darts back the way the anarchist came, dodging tossed Indie newspaper racks and street pavers.
Medea Benjamin finally notices the black tide in front of her and stops. Her followers bunch up behind her, breasts hanging at belt level.
“Do you have any cameras? Where’s the MEEEEEEEEEDiiiiiiaaaaa?”
Jeff grabs a gear, his knock-off birkenstocks sparking on the sidewalk.
A burly anarchist adjusts his mask and then looms over Benjamin.
“Hey, grandma, we own this street. We HaTE GEORGE BUSH!”
She doesn’t flinch. Jeff drops the sign and starts to stretch out his pace.
“YOU think YOU HATE GEORGE BUSH?” She turns. “Girls! He says they own the street… because they HATE GEORGE BUSH!”
Silence falls, broken only by a soft rush of air as the Pink ladies take a long deep, angry breath and Jeff begins to see the lights of Denver red shift…
Benjamin whirls on the punk and suddenly dwarfs him.
“Hate? We’ll show you hate!” , and draws back her fist.
“Not the face! I just got my nose gaged!”
She kicks him in the belly and the Pinks charge the anarchists. About that time the security guards clear the door. Nobody notices them longer than it takes to grind them into the asphalt.
I’d pay to hear how that turns out.
Comment by stace on 5/4 @ 10:11 pm #
I’ll ask my parents for suggestions. They were delegates. Last time I heard my mom mention it, it was something along the lines of “the hippies attacked our hotel and we couldn’t get to our rooms”. I guess that’s one reason my parents turned Republican.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/4 @ 10:17 pm #
Oh yeah. I had to get my nephew a bat. Just the metal ones were more than I figured. And forget about wood unless he shows some kind of for real talent I think. What killed me was my brother said he needed bases too. Bases. Had never in my life contemplated buying bases. There were the for real professional ones for like $250 or another set for like $25. He didn’t get the professional ones.
Comment by Karl on 5/4 @ 10:25 pm #
Okay, I upped the ante. And though I don’t know what Jeff’s target is, if everyone who has longed for his return chipped in even a few dollars, I think he would be in pretty good shape.
Comment by B Moe on 5/4 @ 11:00 pm #
What killed me was my brother said he needed bases too. Bases. Had never in my life contemplated buying bases.
Seriously. Aren’t there any crippled kids in his neighborhood?
Comment by Tman on 5/4 @ 11:28 pm #
………did someone say there will be wine and crackers?
Comment by ArcherWeps on 5/5 @ 6:23 am #
He’s lying. He has to pay the interest on the Betty Ford tab.
Comment by Pablo on 5/5 @ 6:49 am #
How much are molotov cocktails? You could have some fun passing those out. Alternatively, how about 50000 marbles?
Comment by mojo on 5/5 @ 8:11 am #
Or 50,000 bees…
Comment by Jaded on 5/5 @ 8:40 am #
Please put this backup closer to the convention and I will certainly give but I have recently given to American Thinker, Lucianne, and a couple of others but I would be more than HAPPY to give to you in say July….please repeat your request later on :-)
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/5 @ 8:44 am #
Days of Swine and Hosers.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 9:20 am #
I think you should market one of those games with your pic, a magnet wand, and some iron filings. Like printing monees.
Which I sent you one as my family members play more Wii than baseball.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 9:20 am #
Sent you a monees, that is. Lolcash.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 9:22 am #
We’ve one dusty aluminum bat, and this other plastic one with holes in it.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 9:23 am #
When I was a kid, we used tree stumps as bases, and liked it that way.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/5 @ 9:24 am #
Thanks to those of you who have thus far contributed. Unfortunately, my son is ill, and I haven’t slept in what feels like days. I’m going to try to nap, during which time I’ll think over another protein wisdom interview.
I think the Reverend Wright wouldn’t mind talking to me. So that might be one way to go. Look for it tomorrow. If I have time later today, I’ll see if I can’t try to overhear Billy Jack and Cindy Sheehan, see what those two are up to these days.
By the way, where does one get patchouli? And clove cigarettes? And hemp pants?
Comment by mojo on 5/5 @ 9:36 am #
Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley. Patchouli central.
But you might try Ft. Collins – or look for a head shop (if they still exist, and are called that) near U of C…
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 9:43 am #
Hey, it is 2008.
But I don’t think you can get Kretek in Maryland.
Comment by Pablo on 5/5 @ 9:47 am #
Any tobacconist is gonna have them stinky ass Djarums.
Comment by jon on 5/5 @ 10:04 am #
“How much are molotov cocktails? You could have some fun passing those out.”–Pablo
With gas prices where they are, cars would be trying to get hit by the things. But if they’re government-subsidized ethanol or recycled fast food bio-diesel, they’d be very welcome.
And forget Birks or Earth Shoes: bare is the new black, or Birk, or whatever. Latest hippie and athlete obsession: all shoes are evil. Unfortunately, science seems to back them up. Still, I’m certain I’ll see Jeff confronted by a sign at the convention saying “No shirt, no shoes, no dice.” It’ll all be totally bogus from then on. At least I hope so. Mister Hand awaits his explanation of the proceedings.
And I’ll look forward to it. Will all the disguises have their own blog entries? Will Che Spicoli, Professor Maurice de Liberrole, or whatever character you create be sending missives? I ain’t paying into your private depilation fund if there won’t be constant references to pipes, no matter how much it makes you unlike the bear Andrew Sullivan.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 5/5 @ 11:17 am #
Would fluorescent or glowing tattoo ink show up better on darker skin?
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 11:35 am #
You know who likes shoes a lot is Anderson Cooper.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/5 @ 11:36 am #
Today’s donations: 1
A bit disappointing. Looks like I’ll be getting a tattoo of a nanobot.
Comment by Karl on 5/5 @ 11:38 am #
You might try promising not to spend the money on tats — at least not real ones.
Comment by DonL on 5/5 @ 12:08 pm #
Check this out. Tell me how much you want and where I can send it.
http://www.purebodyoil.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=704
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 12:13 pm #
I am a cause of disappointment. Sob.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 12:14 pm #
I didn’t know Anderson Cooper liked the shoes.
Comment by sashal on 5/5 @ 12:35 pm #
sorry, Jeff, I am in a long slump and do not know even if my business will survive without going bankrupt in case this economy continue on the current path, besides I had a major heart attack 2 months ago, so it is not easy.
To think that I was doing so well just last year and before…sigh…
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 12:35 pm #
Anderson is giddy with the shoes. All the time, for years now. I think the shoes are what help keep him centered amongst all those feelings he’s plagued with. He’s a very sensitive sole.
Comment by Jim in KC on 5/5 @ 2:25 pm #
@happyfeet:
Comment by Jim in KC on 5/5 @ 2:28 pm #
Hey, the blog ate my comment! How cool is that?! It said “groan” inside less than and greater than signs, and the blog just snarfed it up.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 5/5 @ 2:41 pm #
Don’t forget keffiyehs or black bandanas. Make sure you put the prefix “anarcho-” at the beginning of your group that you preferably call a “collective.” Totally F-up the system by taking out some imperialist Starbucks windows then get home to blog it on Indymedia ASAP!
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 2:52 pm #
Yeah, Jim in KC. I wasn’t totally committed to that one but I hit “say it” anyway.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/5 @ 3:11 pm #
No, Sarah. Very much appreciated. This time the notifications are showing up in my in box, so I can send everyone a nice little thank you note.
Right now, though, I’m tending to a sick kid whose mom is out of town on business again. Until Thursday. Poor little guy.
Comment by Karl on 5/5 @ 3:16 pm #
sashal,
Sorry to hear all that. The economy seems to have hit at least a few other pw regulars. Could hit me by the end of the year. Some think we’re really in the trough now, so I hope conditions improve for you (and everyone else).
Comment by Karl on 5/5 @ 3:18 pm #
…and sorry to hear about Jeff’s son, too, of course.
Comment by MC on 5/5 @ 3:24 pm #
So do we get pictures of the inked results?
Comment by MC on 5/5 @ 3:26 pm #
There you go. My tip is in – even without the promise of pics…
Comment by Ric Locke on 5/5 @ 3:35 pm #
Jim in KC, if you do it that way the blog thinks you’re making an HTML tag and doesn’t show it.
If you want less-than and more-than symbols to appear, you have to type < and > respectively.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 3:42 pm #
< and >
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 3:42 pm #
for real? < and >
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 3:44 pm #
oh. cool. That one at #65 actually made WP throw a really ugly error, not having anything preceding it I guess.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 3:46 pm #
Wait. Then how did you type the thingers without them becoming thingers?
Comment by RTO Trainer on 5/5 @ 3:52 pm #
Freedom Pipe & Tobacco
1695 Wadsworth Blvd # D, Lakewood, CO
Looks like they can help with the ink, and piercings too.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/5 @ 3:54 pm #
Sweet. Thanks, RTO.
And thanks, MC.
Comment by Jim in KC on 5/5 @ 4:04 pm #
Yeah, Ric, an html tag it doesn’t understand. Chucks it right into the bit bucket. The & part will come in handy if happyfeet posts any more bad puns, though.
I was going to donate to the “tats and tie-dyes” fund until I realized I don’t have my PayPal auth token with me. I’ll have to do it tonight, I guess.
Comment by Ric Locke on 5/5 @ 4:12 pm #
Happyfeet,
& :-)
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/5 @ 4:14 pm #
I think I’ll get my eyebrow or tongue pierced.
Either that, or just carry around a tray of special brownies. Whatever’s cheapest.
Comment by Bill Ayers on 5/5 @ 4:17 pm #
Dude.. Days of Denver Rage… You gotta go dressed in a vintage Football Helmet like John Jacobs… and scream “We are the guerrillas fighting behind enemy lines. … Turn the imperialists’ war into a civil war’” and then of course, smash a few Starbucks windows to show THE MAN that you’re serious…
Ahhh.. Good times..
I love the smell of tear gas in the morning..
Comment by sashal on 5/5 @ 4:28 pm #
thanks, Karl.
Seems nobody is buying the long-term durable goods now.
I still “hope” for a “change”
Comment by Ouroboros on 5/5 @ 4:28 pm #
Man, I got an ole copy of Mao’s Little Red Book you can borrow if you really want to capture that summer after the Summer of Love angst… It’d probably impress some dumbass (but cute) neo-Hippie chick enough to score you a roll in the hay.. Especially if you have one of those Red Commie prole caps on too.. Just a thought.
Comment by sears poncho on 5/5 @ 4:41 pm #
Alright, I dropped a few bucks in the kitty. Jeff, don’t go getting any unpronounceable diseases
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 4:46 pm #
I’m buying computer parts every month until I have me a computer. I think mostly those count into durables. I’m not using any credit though, so maybe there’s the deal. But that’s not really what has motivated me to comment. No. Why I’m commenting is more to say that I hope a lot that people appreciate that in this post is an implicit commitment that Jeff will be blogging during the Dem convention, which is of incredible moment really, especially given the recent fight quest interregnum thinger. It’s really a big deal I think. I’d much rather buy tickets for that than some preachy Iron Man bullshit.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 5/5 @ 4:56 pm #
I dunno. Latest numbers say March durable goods orders are up after two Feb decreases.
Comment by MC on 5/5 @ 5:16 pm #
Welcome bro’…
I’m just hoping that you’ll get a cape scored into the ‘dermis there somewhere… that’d be to dye for…
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 5:22 pm #
Jeff, have you checked your paypal and get money from me? Because I seem to remember some trouble with that the last time…and want to be sure it worked.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 5:23 pm #
Mmm. Maybe I should eat something as I seem to be deleting verbs at random.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/5 @ 5:50 pm #
Sarah –
See comment 59. Got it and much much much appreciated. Will be writing out thank yous later after my son goes to bed. May have to skip my class tonight given that he’s still got a fever of over 100.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/5 @ 5:55 pm #
I didn’t find Iron Man preachy. Maybe I just wasn’t thinking. You know . . . like Amanda.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/5 @ 5:59 pm #
Oh. Well my point was more that it’s better to give your monies to people what are good, stalwart and true than to these people out here. Iron Man was just like an instantiation or whatever. Am I using that word right? I never use that word.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/5 @ 6:03 pm #
Yes. It was a hypostasis of the Archons.
Comment by Karl on 5/5 @ 6:17 pm #
I liked Iron Man, but gave more money to Jeff.
‘course, if Stark Industries wants to pay me to blog against The Man, I’m so out of here…
Comment by mojo on 5/5 @ 6:37 pm #
Hope the kidster’s feeling better, Jeff. What’s he now, 3? 4?
Probably needs some chicken soup. Poor little guy.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/5 @ 6:42 pm #
“I think the shoes are what help keep him centered amongst all those feelings he’s plagued with. He’s a very sensitive sole.”
Shut up and call a toe truck.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 5/5 @ 7:33 pm #
Threw a little in the tip jar, Jeff. Good luck. This should be fantastic. I cannot wait to see it. Take care of the boy. Nothing in life is more important, as you already know.
Comment by easyliving1 on 5/5 @ 10:07 pm #
I’ll be happy to contribute when my checking account isn’t overdrawn, which will hopefully be Wednesday.
For August, you ought to consider “John Locke and The Doctrine of Majority-Rule” by Willmoore Kendall. The 2008 Denver Democrat Convention will be all about Majority-Rule.
For now, you should start a blog pissing match with some chump, some idiot you could really push around (to paraphrase The Hudsucker Proxy) and draw a whole bunch of viewers to your site.
BECAUSE OF TEH HITS.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 11:05 pm #
thanks, Jeff. I was actually worried it didn’t go through right, cause my bank hadn’t noticed the transaction yet.
Comment by SarahW on 5/5 @ 11:06 pm #
I’m holding out for SPEED RACER
Comment by Karl on 5/5 @ 11:26 pm #
SarahW,
I have a signed Speed Racer lithograph in my home, but the early reviews are not good. Not that I won’t go, natch.
Comment by Carin- on 5/6 @ 6:09 am #
Jeff, I so want to support you, but my husband has just sorta lost his job. Sorta not, in a sense that he’s trying to make the business go w/o the “parent” company. If it works – I’ll be able to hit the tip jar heavily in the future. For now, Cobra is killing us.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/6 @ 6:24 am #
No worries, Carin. Been there, done that, paid the outrageous premiums. Thanks for all your support in the past, and for your continued contributions to the peanut gallery!
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/6 @ 6:25 am #
Disguising yourself as a hippie, eh? I thought I’d be a bit different and wear a Halliburton hat.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/6 @ 7:16 am #
I have several ideas for characters. Could prove, to quote the late great Mitch Hedberg, “Pro-VOC-a-tive!”
Comment by Carin BA, MD, PhD on 5/6 @ 7:16 am #
Poor kid:( Hope he’s feeling better soon.
On the positive side (regarding my situation), I just finished P90X , so I’m thinking if my hubby’s business tanks, I could always get a job in a strip club.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 5/6 @ 7:33 am #
Jeff: just hit your Amazon tip jar.
I’ll try to give a bit more when I get paid for the summer class I’m teaching.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 5/6 @ 7:46 am #
Jeff,
A couple of drinking vouchers in the jar.
Comment by Mr McGuire on 5/6 @ 8:21 am #
I got a tip for you.. You listening…? “Plastics”
Comment by mojo on 5/6 @ 8:58 am #
Dit-da-dit-dit-dit…
This just in: SPLITTERS!
Comment by Cowboy on 5/6 @ 9:11 am #
feet:
I had to get my nephew a bat. Just the metal ones were more than I figured.
I just bought my youngest an aluminum softball bat. They ranged from $29.00 to [I kid you not] $450! Like your nephew’s bases, the littlest Cowgirl is NOT playing with a $450 bat.
Comment by Cowboy on 5/6 @ 9:15 am #
Jeff:
I’ll be hitting the tip jar later in the week. Gotsta wait for that university money.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 5/6 @ 9:16 am #
Amazon sells patchouli. You could always put it on your wish list.
Be warned, though, this is the pure oil. I have to mix tiny amounts of it with olive oil to make it usable (yes, I actually like the smell of the stuff). For your purposes, I’d try it uncut; it’d help open up some space in the crowd.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/6 @ 9:25 am #
Added to the list, SBP. Thanks!
Comment by Carin -BONC on 5/6 @ 10:05 am #
Dang, Jeff. PTL I’m over my patchouli-reeking days. I don’t remember it costing so much. I remembering it costing a few backs, and stocked on the shelf next to the rolling papers.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 5/6 @ 10:08 am #
I don’t remember it costing so much.
That was probably diluted stuff (i.e., of a strength that a person with a normal sense of smell would wear). This is the pure essential oil.
Comment by thor on 5/6 @ 10:35 am #
Alright, alright, you’re worth it. But I want to go too. I’ will wear a pirate eyepatch for a press pass. Gimme! You deserve the white girlfriend’s privileged view, thus you can hoist yourself atop my shoulders when Baracky grabs the microphone to accept his place in Hope-Changin’ history.
O-Ba-Ma! O-Ba-Ma!
Comment by Jim in KC on 5/6 @ 10:40 am #
I have a “Once a Marine, always a Marine” hat you can borrow. Or: Blackwater has a nice selection available on their website. Of course, that one might best be deployed at the next Kos get-together.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/6 @ 1:28 pm #
Sorry for not posting, guys. My son has a fever of 103.8. This is the third day, so I’ve put in a call to the doctor. I was hoping it had peaked and was breaking early this morning, but now he just seems lethargic.
At least he said he’s hungry. Here’s hoping that’s a good sign.
Comment by MayBee on 5/6 @ 1:33 pm #
Poor little buddy.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/6 @ 1:41 pm #
Everyone will feel better soon and the posts they will flow like sweet plum wine I think.
Comment by Ouroboros on 5/6 @ 2:10 pm #
So just how old is this boy of your’s now, Jeff? As I recall you had him gambolling through the yard back in the Ward Churchill/Billy Jack days like 3 years ago so that would make him, what.. 4 or so?
Whatcha going to do when he starts school here shortly? Just curious..
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/6 @ 8:12 pm #
Cry. And then write a novel, probably.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/6 @ 8:25 pm #
Baracky is gonna demand that you shed your cynicism though. That’s gonna make writing a novel a lot more challenging I think.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/6 @ 8:30 pm #
can u shoot me your addr, plz?
i have lost it since i sent u my last contribution.
you knoe i hate paypal.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 5/6 @ 8:42 pm #
I like my cynicism and he can’t have it.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/6 @ 8:45 pm #
Yeah. He can have our cynicism when he pries it from our cold, dead souls.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/6 @ 8:48 pm #
If only I was sure that my head on the door was a dream I think. That guy is scary for real.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/6 @ 8:54 pm #
robert smith?
he’s not scary..he’s actually pretty dishy for an older guy.
but think about how your pillowcases would look the next day.
:(
Comment by happyfeet on 5/6 @ 8:58 pm #
Ok you totally ruined the evocative forebodingness thing I was going for.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/6 @ 9:02 pm #
Here’s something for nishi:
http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif
Comment by troy mcclure on 5/6 @ 9:03 pm #
No one can be counted to deliver fresh incoherence like nishi, to bring the thread to a crashing halt. The whole
“recreate ‘68″ with Code Pink, does kind of remind one of the Judean Peoples Front and the Popular Front for Judea out of “Life of Brian” no?
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/6 @ 9:08 pm #
Only the Perfect Vessel for our hopeydreaminess would claim to be an imperfect vessel for our hopeydreaminess.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/6 @ 9:10 pm #
wow dan, i totally fit in at least half those boxes.
do you know, i actually met some of the Patriotic Nigras in gamespace.
they perpetrated unspeakable things on the furries.
troy, it isn’t entirely her fault.
i think it is just horribly cruel to name a little grrrl medea.
i mean, what else could she do?
Comment by happyfeet on 5/6 @ 9:14 pm #
Hey now. Buffy killed vampires. You just have to rise above is all.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 5/6 @ 9:16 pm #
Well, I was going for the James T. Kirk, Star Trek V thing. “I don’t want my pain taken away! I NEED my pain!”
But I don’t think it came across.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/6 @ 9:21 pm #
Wow. And that was without even seeing the chart.
Comment by mojo on 5/6 @ 9:47 pm #
Medea: Mmmmm, pie!
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/7 @ 4:45 am #
mojo
that’s disgusting
Comment by MayBee on 5/7 @ 7:45 am #
troy, it isn’t entirely her fault.
i think it is just horribly cruel to name a little grrrl medea.
i mean, what else could she do?
She named herself Madea while in college. Her parents named her Susan.
Comment by Pablo on 5/7 @ 7:52 am #
Which was also cruel…to society.
Comment by mojo on 5/7 @ 8:52 am #
Upper middle class techie guru, ex-AF, ex-biker, ex-liberal (Jimmuh Cahtah cured me! Hallelujah!) with no encumbrances and very little patience with the witless.
Cool? Baby, I’d give ya frostbite…
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/7 @ 9:01 am #
mojo…..i was thinkin of the kind of pie in Amelie.
euwwwwwwwww
medea is a horrible name to choose. susan must have been disturbed.
the only worse name would have been titus andronicus, and that is sexlimited i guess.
Comment by Pablo on 5/7 @ 9:12 am #
I’m certain that Susan’s issues stem from her parents’ outrageous denial of her fundamental right to a pony.
Jeff, a consistent 103.8? I’d get the doc involved now. Good luck, little dude.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/7 @ 9:33 am #
erm…i think current medical philosophy is that supressing fever makes the illness last longer, in that fever is part of the natural immune response system.
unless it is very high, 105 i think.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/7 @ 9:34 am #
Now, not consistent. Lowers when he is on fever reducers. 103.8 was the peak. It had been in the 101-102 range prior. Will go take his temp now that’s he up and see if it’s improved. He seems more energetic this morning.
Comment by MayBee on 5/7 @ 9:35 am #
Are his cheeks bright pink, like he’s been slapped?
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/7 @ 9:35 am #
Nishi –
Fever reducers take away the discomfort and encourage eating, etc. Cherry Creek pediatric is very highly ranked. They told me just to monitor the fever, and let them know if it lasts longer than today.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/7 @ 9:36 am #
MayBee –
Not so much any more. He was a little flushed at times yesterday.
Comment by BJTexs TW/BP on 5/7 @ 9:46 am #
True Story: My wife and I were awakend by the miserable crying of out oldest. She was about four months old and slept perfectly through the night so something was up. I snatched her out of the crib and noticed that she was literally hot to the touch and very dry. Temp reading was just under 104 whch scared the bejeebus out of us.
Fortunately we had a pediatrician who called us back at 3:00am and told us to give her a double dose of liquid Tylenol and wait 1 hour. She fell asleep within about 30 minutes and woke up the next morning as if nothing had happened. Mom and Dad, however, spent the rest of the night staring wide eyed at the ceiling and hyperventilating.
Ped’s opinion was that it was a “flash fever” that soemtimes appears in kids
Comment by BJTexs TW/BP on 5/7 @ 9:48 am #
Hm… Comment chop off.
No medical explaination was forthcoming.
If the little one is well into the second hour of his kettle bell workout I’d say you’re home free.
Comment by MayBee on 5/7 @ 9:50 am #
MayBee –
Not so much any more. He was a little flushed at times yesterday.
Hm. I was thinking maybe strep/scarlet fever. My oldest got it several times. I was always fooled because he never said his throat hurt, and his fever would go up and down during the day.
Comment by SarahW on 5/7 @ 10:30 am #
Oh, I thought you were going for Fifth disease, Maybee. My son got strep once, and it turned into scarlett fever. The soles of his feet peeled off.
Comment by SarahW on 5/7 @ 10:31 am #
Apparently, severe reactions to strep are common in my husband’s family. I was not really expecting it.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 5/7 @ 11:09 am #
I’m actually on my second go-round of strep this spring. I’ve got enough anti-biotics in me to clean the entire Mexican water system. My throat was so bad it was actually bleeding I thought it was just really dry from the air conditioning on the airplane. Freaked my ass out, gargled after brushing my teeth and bleeeerrrrghhhh, nasty.
I’ll hit you upon reciept of my april expense check Jeff. Any day now.
Comment by Ouroboros on 5/7 @ 12:01 pm #
I know just what you mean.. The other days I started feeling a little crappy with bleeding from every orifice.. Stopped by the clinic after work.. Turned out I’d contracted Marburg Virus (probably from one of those stinking bums on the bus..).. I chugged about half a bottle of Nyquil when I got home and hit the hay.. I’m all better now.
Comment by MC on 5/7 @ 3:09 pm #
Marburg Virus? For real? Are you in Angola?
Comment by mojo on 5/7 @ 4:13 pm #
Marburg is just Ebola that made it to Germany.
Comment by Ouroboros on 5/7 @ 4:30 pm #
“Are you in Angola?”
No..but I ride the bus with a lot of Egyptian Fruit Bats…
Comment by MC on 5/7 @ 6:14 pm #
Oh yeah, those guys…
Comment by Patrick Carroll on 5/7 @ 6:22 pm #
$20 to you in the tip jar.
I’d have sent more, but what with paying for bibles, guns, and ammo – mmmm, clingy, and all teh bitter, well, you know.
I gotta go down to Shallowford and I-85 and plink at some illegals. Later.
Comment by mac on 5/8 @ 5:12 am #
Can I be the convention door-man to make sure the tear gas makes it inside the building?
Comment by serr8d on 5/8 @ 9:09 am #
Re:#118…I won’t use paypal either. But Amazon works just fine, everyone alive has at one point bought something from Amazon, haven’t they? And the rankings substantiate that to some degree.
Oh, I hit that Amazon account on May 4, for an oddball amount ending in 79¢. But that’s just me.
Comment by serr8d on 5/8 @ 9:15 am #
On #73…Ha! I had a position open in East Tennessee last year. One cat comes in for the interview wearing a collarless shirt, tattoos up and down both arms. A big, hulking boy, about 35 or so. His story was that he’d been running the wrestling circuit in the region for years, but because of his age and injuries he had to try to regain his professional edge.
Now, he’s sitting across from a guy in a suit and tie, he has this ponytail thing wrapped around his neck, and his final question to me…”Do you think it would be OK to wear my piercings to work?”
Hmmmph. I hired a veteran instead.
Comment by MayBee on 5/8 @ 10:51 am #
Oh, I swear it is strep.
Of course, the doctors know what they are talking about.
But when my son had those symptoms (up and down fever, red sandpapery rash, stomach ache), it was strep every time.
You’re a good daddy, Jeff.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/8 @ 11:10 am #
Whoever designed viruses was stupid.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/8 @ 11:40 am #
He says no sore throat, MayBee. But maybe we should bring him in anyway, regardless of what they say, eh?
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Comment by Jeff G. on 5/8 @ 11:53 am #
My wife just got back from her business trip.
Today’s status: one donation, made on the 5th, was canceled by the person who donated. Meaning for the day I’m actually $-85.00
So this has not been the most encouraging of fundraisers.
I’ll probably just pull this down early rather than risk further embarrassment. Thanks to those who have donated. Now that my wife can look after Satch for a bit, I can send out those thank you notes.
If you donated through Amazon, I don’t get individual notifications unless you’ve requested it. So to those of you who’ve done so, a big generic thanks is in order:
BIG GENERIC THANKS.
Comment by mojo on 5/8 @ 12:07 pm #
that such a rash is normal as part of the course of a viral infection
Yeah, that’s what they told the poor villagers in “Outbreak”…
Comment by happyfeet on 5/8 @ 12:12 pm #
Maybe something came up I guess. I wouldn’t be discouraged. This medium has a long ways to go yet, but you hang in there and lots of cool things will happen. Probably sooner than you think. You’re a superstar. I have a good eye for these sorts of things.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/8 @ 12:15 pm #
I’ve been the diamond in the rough for a while now.
Incidentally, I’m very thankful to all those who have contributed. And humbled by it. Still, this has been my worst fundraiser to date. Going backwards today just really stung a bit.
But maybe I’m just oversensitive because I’m worried about my kid.
Comment by Pablo on 5/8 @ 12:28 pm #
Fret not, Jeff, and keep this one open for a while. I just got back in town from a trip on which I spent far more than I should have, but you’re on my list, right behind Vinnie and Knuckles Financial, Inc. If you must lay blame, clearly it belongs on this goddamned Bush economy.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/8 @ 12:31 pm #
It’s your house, Jeff, and everyone is waiting for you to be back full time. I might point out that you’re competing with Mother’s Day, which is where most of us are spending our mad money right now. I agree with Pablo: there’s no reason not to run the fund-drive for a while. You can just replace the post once a week.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/8 @ 12:37 pm #
Oh that’s right. Mother’s Day. I did that yesterday. I very nearly forgot but Other Guy mentioned it. I spent more than I wanted to I think but it’s kind of cool cause mom’s getting a plant that comes from this place that just mostly exists to employ special people who don’t think so good, so it’s better than doing the honeybaked ham thing again.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/8 @ 12:38 pm #
Shit. Have to go out and get a Mother’s Day gift. In the rain. Shoeless.
Oh. And here’s a pledge. If I can raise $500 more, I will develop a character who is very pro gay marriage, wears a few rolled up bandanas, a half shirt, short shorts, leg warmers, and maybe even some roller skates.
Dig deep, people. I’ll have to really get my abs firmed for that one.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/8 @ 12:38 pm #
I love you mom. Here’s a ham. Kind of lame.
Comment by MayBee on 5/8 @ 12:45 pm #
He says no sore throat, MayBee. But maybe we should bring him in anyway, regardless of what they say, eh?
I’m a firm believer that parents know their kids best, Jeff, so I’d never tell you to bring him in if you feel you don’t need to.
My own son, the one who got strep often, never had a sore throat with it. Whenever we had a new doctor, I had to beg him to take the strep culture even though my buddy wasn’t complaining of a sore throat. It was always his tummy, the rash, the fever.
OTOH, I was- what is the word I’m looking for?– oh yeah, wrong sometimes.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/8 @ 12:54 pm #
Will monitor him today. He seems to be eating a bit more. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I really do want him to go poopy before I do anything.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 5/8 @ 1:13 pm #
Hi, Jeff.
Re – your son
Yeah, being a parent has it’s panic moments. But what you really have, besides a son, is a gift from God.
I never liked kids, because they have that built-in bullshit detector. At times, when I was around kids, I felt like they had lasers that could look right through me.
Well, They DO have that laser, but now that I have a son, ANY hassle is worth his presence in my life. He keeps me honest, and now my heart breaks when I see kids with screwed up selfish parents. And there are way too many of them.
My son is my treasure (and I often think that he is the reason I didn’t die before I was thirty). WHOO-HOO! I look at him and marvel at the hideously stupid things I have done in my life, and that I came through them relatively unscathed. I just hope I can help him avoid some of the pitfalls. But he, just like me as a kid, doesn’t want to hear SHIT! Where did those years go when we knew everything?
Anyway, your son IS a gift, and there are many cliff hanger moments to come. It’s just hard to comprehend what having a child has opened up in my cold, cold heart. Because I (you?) have always been a cynical (but magnificent) bastard.
Enjoy your son, and don’t let your imagination run away with you in relation to him. We all feel for you about the dickheads who have decided that you and your family should be the target of mouth-breathers. All good things have a price, and all good things eventually draw the unwashed. Sometimes, that happens to me, and I hate it. Part of the price of free speech, I would guess.
Too many times, though, I project outcomes, and that is an absolute waste of time. I guess it’s a little different for me, because having a kid was the second to last thing in the world that I ever thought I would do. Only inches behind marrying the last woman in the world that I ever thought I would marry.
Thanks again for PW, and we all do really miss your posts. PW is a breath of fresh air in this brave new world.
The Dog
Comment by MayBee on 5/8 @ 1:25 pm #
I know it is so difficult and worrisome.
We can all think back to being sick as a child and remember how our parents treated us with so much love and caring. It sets a standard for us, I think, in how we treat people later in life. What you are doing for him is so important.
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Comment by maggie katzen on 5/8 @ 8:20 pm #
I’m gonna have to start handin’ out kittehs! and then they won’t figure out how to use the litter box, poop all over the garage and have to go back to the golf course.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/8 @ 10:17 pm #
You might enjoy this, Maggie.
Not because of the singing, though:
http://www.vimeo.com/760055
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/8 @ 10:27 pm #
ha! yeah, thanks Dan. loved some of the classic moves in there.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 5/9 @ 12:18 am #
Jeff,
Don’t ever give up. Your life couldn’t possibly be half as bleak as mine, and I still endure. Angrily, sometimes, but I know that anger will eat me alive, so I am slowly learning to be a major league shortstop, and how to cut off those line drives.
Don’t back down. You are much better than you think you are, and most of us know that.
Please don’t give up. Don’t let the “hopey truthy” thing grab your soul and make you say “screw it”.
PW is a lifeline for many of us, and (I hate to take this liberty, but I think I am right) most of us are in awe of your effort to bring a little bit of sanity to the web. And we miss your posts!
Sorry I don’t have any more cash to send you, but little league called (more like bashed my fucking head in with a bat). I sent you what I could, but the moment I have an extra dollar or two, it’s yours.
I think I can say I speak for many people here when I say: “God bless you”.
Way smarmy maybe. But true.
You need to get a clue about how much pleasure PW gives to so many people, and they need to get a clue as to how much it costs you. If I were Leona Helmsley, I would endow you with almost as much as I endowed my stupid fucking ugly dickhead dog with.
Credit/debit cards are accepted, youse guys.
PW ain’t cheap, so please, reach out a hand. Give Jeff some dough before Obama takes it all away.
Tanks.
Comment by Pablo on 5/9 @ 12:46 pm #
Oooh! Hope! Vote Obama, and the ‘dillo will dance!
Comment by Cowboy on 5/9 @ 7:51 pm #
Yes, but what is the sound of one armadillo testicle clapping?
Comment by mojo on 5/9 @ 10:49 pm #
Shooting at his feet works too. Trust me.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 10:39 am #
well…O is the One.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 10:51 am #
While we have not firmly decided upon a final day for tracking the Democratic race, it is coming soon.
Ok. But really isn’t the point for Clinton to get to the end and be able to look back and point to a really quite respectable number of primaries and percentage of popular vote won? She really has no choice but to work to preserve her political viability. That’s not wholly selfish either. It’s a fiduciary responsibility to her donors.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 11:13 am #
Obamalot!
From Harvard halls I hear your call.
Obamalot!
To you alone I give my all!
I know in my soul what you expect of me!
And all that and more I shall be.
A Prog of the Democratic Party should be invincible,
Suceed where a less fantastic man would fail.
Climb a wall no one else can climb,
Cleave racialbias in record time,
Swim a moat in a coat of rev wright leaden mail.
No matter the pain, he ought to be unwinceable,
Impossible deeds should be his daily fare.
But where in the world
Is there in the world
A man so *extraordinaire*?
C’est moi! C’est moi, I’m forced to admit.
‘Tis I, I humbly reply.
That mortal who
These marvels can do,
C’est moi, c’est moi, ’tis I.
I’ve never lost
In poll or game;
I’m simply the best by far.
When memes are crossed
‘Tis always the same:
One blow and au revoir!
C’est moi! C’est moi! So adm’rably fit!
A JFK reincarnate heaven sent.
And here I stand, with valour untold,
Exeption’ly brave, amazingly bold,
To serve as your next President!
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 11:17 am #
feets i think it is amazingly autocratic for Scott Rasmussen to do that is all.
pollsters are the new aristocracy.
doesn’t he realize he is biasing his sample data?
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 11:18 am #
Here he comes
Here comes Baracky
He’s a demon on wheels
He’s a demon and he’s gonna be chasin’ after someone.
For real Barack is a lot a demon name. Buffy would definitely be on the case I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 11:20 am #
Oh. Well that’s why I highlighted that one part, cause I thought it was autocratic too. But then it turns out that they have an indeterminate stop date for the polling. Sort of dubious that they would make noises about maybe stopping I thought.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 11:21 am #
You’re right about the sample. And Baracky is gonna need good data.
Comment by Pablo on 5/10 @ 11:21 am #
I think he’s saving his money.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 11:28 am #
McCain I think wants to move the country forward. Sort of slowly and steadily to be sure I think. Baracky wants to take America off-road. But we don’t have the right tires for that. It’s gonna be a lot bumpy I think, especially in the back seat. And especially if Baracky has crappy data and a bad GPS.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 11:30 am #
from all 57 states!
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 11:39 am #
LOL
feets u so rawk!
Comment by TmjUtah on 5/10 @ 11:44 am #
I’d like to see Laurence Fishburne come out on the dais in Denver and reprise his secular sermon from “The Matrix”, putting Obama in place of Reeves as “The One”.
I always thought that of all the disturbing philosophy shat through those moviues, the sermon was the worst part. Kind of a high school skit put together by people who had been told about religious faith… but didn’t have a clue how to go about demonstrating it.
Mrs. Tmj and I watched it in the theater; about halfway through she leans over and says “My goodness – it’s going to be an orgy, isn’t it?!”
Anything for the O!
We are in a lot of trouble.
Comment by Semanticleo on 5/10 @ 11:46 am #
Sure, sure, Citizen Journalist will be covering it, but inquiring minds want to know……………….
Will Das Scwarze Korps be credentialed at the Convention as well?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 11:48 am #
maggie is isn’t the same as mccain’s senior moment on Sunni/Shi’ia.
mccain muffed that multiple times and couldn’t remember from the point of time that he was briefed on it to his Petraeus question.
McCain: There are numerous threats to security in Iraq and the future of Iraq. Do you still view Al Qaeda in Iraq as a major threat?
Petraeus: It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was say 15 months ago.
McCain: Certainly not….. an obscure sect of the Shiites…all…overall?
Petraeus: No, no sir.
McCain: Or Sunnis or anybody else then? Al Qaeda continues to try to assert themselves in Mosul, is that correct?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 11:51 am #
you see, maggie….mccain got briefed on the sunni/shi’ia scism multiple times….and still couldn’t remember that for a nat’l televised question to Petraeus.
kinda scary, huh.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 11:52 am #
I do that same thing with Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino. Especially as they get older.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 11:53 am #
And I’ve been a lot briefed.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 11:56 am #
One needs to be BRIEFED ON HOW MANY STATES THERE ARE?!
Comment by RTO Trainer on 5/10 @ 11:57 am #
No no. It’s okay to get the number of states wrong because no one had reminded him….recently.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 11:57 am #
why maggie?
he only muffed it once.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 11:58 am #
and it’s not O’s first problem with numbers.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 11:59 am #
sowwy RTO.
it really looks to me like mccain couldn’t remember the sunni/shi’ia difference long enough to pose the question.
is that a good thing for a CinC to have?
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 11:59 am #
He wants to run the country, but doesn’t know how many states there are? oh, no problem there.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:00 pm #
I mean, because we ALL grew up being drilled about the differences between Sunnis and Shias.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:01 pm #
watch the video clip.
look at mccain’s eyes.
i’ve seen shortterm memory loss before.
this is classic.
Comment by TmjUtah on 5/10 @ 12:01 pm #
It’s tough for ol’ Baracky to put a number on the states. After all, there’s only one dar al-Harb.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:02 pm #
ooooh, so you can diagnose McCain via a few seconds of video. But Terry Schiavo??? you are an ignorant hypocrite.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:02 pm #
maggie, after mccain gaffed it when he was visitin Iraq, you better believe he was overbriefed if anything.
he couldn’t remember.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:02 pm #
Baracky is gonna be one of those what blames his staff a lot. He would do well in Hollywood I think.
Comment by B Moe on 5/10 @ 12:02 pm #
Heh.
http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2008/05/obama-campaign.html
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:03 pm #
im not diagnosing…i said it just looks like shortterm memory loss.
Comment by B Moe on 5/10 @ 12:04 pm #
No, seriously Maggie, he really is senile, and nishi is the only person in the whole country who can see it.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:04 pm #
fine, I’ve read about shias/sunnis for a while but I can’t remember either. guess I’m senile.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:05 pm #
and you look like a parrot.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:05 pm #
im just not sure someone with his finger on the defcon button should have any kind of memory loss.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:06 pm #
you really don’t have ANY idea about how our government works.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:07 pm #
i didn’t say mccainwas senile.
im not making a diagnosis.
IJS, it looks like shortterm memory loss to me.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:08 pm #
No. For real I think McCain got caught in what for him is really a pretty rare instance of trying to act all commander in chiefy instead of just being McCain. He’s so unaccustomed to focusing on putting on any kind of front that I think he blew his lines. This is Baracky’s mode 24/7 though, so I think when Baracky screws up it’s a function of arrogance. He’s so busy inwardly congratulating himself for nailing the scene in one take that he ends up saying dopey stuff.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:08 pm #
pfft.
I WORK for the government.
Ima defenscon.
btw, I have more clearances than Jack Ryan.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:08 pm #
but 57 states isn’t a memory loss? okay. hypocrite.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:10 pm #
I have the key to the second floor fire door. Sometimes I smoke there when I don’t want to be bugged.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:10 pm #
OOOOH, so you’ve seen the button.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 5/10 @ 12:11 pm #
The universe MUST be continuously expanding. It’d have to be to contain the ever expanding mythos woven by one of the PW commenters.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:12 pm #
i dunno feets.
i think if mccain could have remembered, he would have.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:14 pm #
erm, didn’t he correct himself on the spot?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:15 pm #
maggie if O repeated it then it might be a memory loss.
one time, no.
it is multiple repitions of the same lost associative pattern retrieval that signals shortterm memory loss.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:15 pm #
The eerie part was how oblivious Baracky was to the laughter when he said 57. He’s not on his toes. Too much adulation has lulled him I think.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:16 pm #
hypocrite
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:16 pm #
McCain caught himself right off.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:16 pm #
mccain? you can watch the video.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:17 pm #
really feets? he looks confused in the video to me.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:17 pm #
well, O usually looks kinda confused to me.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:20 pm #
Are you talking about the hearings? I already linked that before. For real he doesn’t look confused. More like he’s more self-conscious than usual though. It wasn’t a good performance I didn’t think even if you put that one thing aside.
Comment by MayBee on 5/10 @ 12:20 pm #
It was the second time he got the number of states wrong, nishi.
After the first time, Dr. Susan Rice pulled him off to the side and drilled him on the number of states and even gave him a puzzle with the 50 state pieces so he could practice at home. Then he got it wrong again.
So sad, because when I look in his eyes it’s like he doesn’t even know what’s happening to him.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:22 pm #
Flowers for Obamanon
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:25 pm #
what happens in the aging process, quite naturally, is that neurofibril bundles form and tau-proteins increase.
the process of associative retrieval of shortterm memories gets impaired.
suddenly the retrieval pattern for that memory is just gone.
the brain is very plastic, and eventually the pattern can relearned, rerouted.
that is…..until the neurofibril bundles compromise too much of the available neocortex.
Comment by MayBee on 5/10 @ 12:26 pm #
April 14, 2008 (via powerline/just one minute)
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 12:27 pm #
memory problems?
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:30 pm #
We’re so doomed.
Comment by JD TWP on 5/10 @ 12:37 pm #
it is multiple repitions of the same lost associative pattern retrieval that signals shortterm memory loss.
So Baracky’s was not short term memory loss, it was just ignorance?
I guess we can point to your “12 Supreme Court Justices” as definitive proof of your senility.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:43 pm #
But that’s not short-term memory what’s implicated there. I remember Sunnis and whatever the other ones are called from years ago. It was on the NPR.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:50 pm #
if i do it again JD, you are welcome to.
:)
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:51 pm #
FOXnews reports O has caught up to HRC in the superdel count.
Comment by Pablo on 5/10 @ 12:52 pm #
Watch the videotape.
I’ve seen people in a persistent vegetative state.
That’s not it.
Hypocrite much, nishi? You are a cartoon, child.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:54 pm #
feets we are talkin about mccains shortterm memory, not yours.
i believe he was rebriefed close to his appearance on the Petraeus interview.
Comment by JD TWP on 5/10 @ 12:57 pm #
nishit – You did it several times, even after people corrected you. So, it is ample evidence, by your standards, of your senility.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 12:59 pm #
No but I’m just saying I think the Sunni thing and the other ones had to have been in his head for a long time. It was on the NPR and I know McCain listens to NPR cause he can regurgitate NPR’s climate change propaganda word for word. It’s like he has this bizarrely hypertrophied aural memory or something. Word for freaking word. It’s almost Rain Man.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 12:59 pm #
??? i said nothing about PVS, pablo.
i think mccain has had one incident of STML.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 1:02 pm #
I think the Sunni thing and the other ones had to have been in his head for a long time.
but it wasn’t.
or he could have retrieved it.
Comment by Pablo on 5/10 @ 1:03 pm #
You damned sure had something to say when Frist was trying to do exactly the same idiotic thing, and he’s actually a doctor. You’re being mendacious and foolish, and I can diagnose that without the benefit of video, hypocrite.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 1:05 pm #
But that’s more of a longterm memory confuzzlement. Like me and Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Or like Lindsey Graham and Lindsay Wagner. Sometimes you just have to write stuff on your hand I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 1:07 pm #
Or like Matt Damon and the cast of Queer as Folk.
Comment by B Moe on 5/10 @ 1:22 pm #
Dr. Susan Rice pulled him off to the side and drilled him on the number of states and even gave him a puzzle with the 50 state pieces so he could practice at home.
I had one of those when I was a kid, and it is kind of confusing how Hawaii looks like more than one place.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 1:26 pm #
??? this has nothing to do with schiavo, pablo.
im using collateral data too.
“In a trip to the Middle East last month, Mr. McCain made an embarrassing mistake when he said several times that he was concerned that Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq. (The United States believes that Iran, a Shiite country, has been training Shiite extremists in Iraq, but not Al Qaeda, a Sunni insurgent group.) He repeated the mistake on Tuesday at hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.”
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 1:28 pm #
Maybe he was drunk.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 1:31 pm #
haha, okfine feets.
i dont think getting drunken before a nat’l tv appearance is a good selector for CinC either.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 1:31 pm #
This one friend one time told us about how in Hawaii she had flown over the island where the leperchauns live. We laughed and she insisted no really there a lot of leperchauns there that moved there a long time ago when people were more worried about it being contagious.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 1:37 pm #
This one here.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 5/10 @ 1:37 pm #
i said it just looks like shortterm memory loss.
And I’ve said your symptons look like NPD, with maybe a side order of word salad.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 5/10 @ 1:38 pm #
your symptons
Also, your symptoms.
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 1:42 pm #
you can say that SBP.
freedom of speech an all.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/10 @ 1:44 pm #
Speed Racer is projected to open lower than Prom Night did. Baracky should take note I think. Marketing isn’t everything.
Comment by SarahW on 5/10 @ 2:26 pm #
In the light most favorable to Obama, he was thinking of delicous steak sauce. Because you know his waffles keep getting interrupted.
Comment by SarahW on 5/10 @ 2:27 pm #
I’m sad because of the bad “speed racer”. And I don’t have anymore costume dramas to watch, that well is dry.
Comment by Pablo on 5/10 @ 2:40 pm #
No, of course it doesn’t. Way to miss the point, though. Are you really that stupid or are you just pretending to be?
Comment by nishizonoshinji on 5/10 @ 2:41 pm #
here Jeff…..some election cheer.
best get your mad fighting skillz in shape for Denver.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/10 @ 8:07 pm #
aw, I got ambling armadillo
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 5/10 @ 8:20 pm #
And I don’t have anymore costume dramas to watch, that well is dry.
If you haven’t seen it (or it’s been a while since you’ve seen it), the 1976 BBC production of I, Claudius is worth watching.
We just finished that one, and it’s held up very well indeed.
Derek Jacobi (Claudius), Brian Blessed (Augustus), John Hurt (Caligula), and youthful performances by Patrick Stewart and John Rhys-Davies. Fine, fine acting all around, though Siân Phillips as Livia steals the show.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 5/10 @ 9:23 pm #
My penis is really big. I know how to use it. How this is germane to anything in this thread is debatable, but I’d just thought I’d share. Anyhow, Jeff, you the man. You really fucking are…
Comment by happyfeet on 5/12 @ 7:40 am #
My penis is really big seems kind of like a thread-killer, huh? Good to know.
Comment by Cowboy on 5/12 @ 8:36 am #
Seriously, ’cause you can’t begin to know how many times I’ve almost posted that.
Whew.
Comment by MayBee on 5/12 @ 8:50 am #
You and me both, Cowboy.
Comment by SarahW on 5/12 @ 10:23 am #
Spies, Brigands, and Pirates:
I Claudius is a favorite.
The first pet my husband and I owned was a horrible smart cat named Agrippanilla. (She replaced a little kitty that met a sad fate, named Agrippina, with a brother I named Drusus, whose adoptive family renamed him “Butch” or something, I can’t think why. :) )
Comment by SarahW on 5/12 @ 10:28 am #
But anyway we used to watch the show with friends and it brought us together and all.
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